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BTLTMORE. 

Y'^HOEVER has enjoyed the privilege of viewing the beautiful chains of the Blue Ridge, — the Great Smoky Mountains 
spreading for iifty miles or more to the west of Asheville, and to a more limited extent the Black Mountains, with 
the monarch :\It. Mitchell to the east, and the Balsam Mountains to the south-west ; the many who have benefited 
by the dryness and general salubrity of the climate ; the lovers of rippling waters and nature's mystic moods ; all these 
will readily understand why a scion of the great railway magnates, and a world-wide traveler, has chosen these southern 
woods to build his BiltmorC manor and to surround it with one of the greatest private parks in existence. 

First visiting Asheville about ten years ago, Mr Geo. W. Vanderbilt found great benefit in his health, and in a later 
year, while sitting one day on the veranda of the Battery Park Hotel, he asked one of the native mountain guides to take 
him to the summit of a distant ridge that seemed to conmiand all the great mountain vistas. To-day Biltmore House marks 
the site. The top of the peak was leveled,— carted away to fill up a gap near by, and the extensive plateau was created, now 
occupied by the gothic-renaissance mansion, the stables, the esplanade and tennis court. The buildings measure 700 feet in 
length. 192 feet at greatest width ; from basement to turret 190 feet. 

The materials used are chiefly sand-stone, marble, steel and mahogany. There is a banquet hall or music room, with 
a grand organ and orchestra loft, the art gallery, the library, the tapestry room, the winter garden, the parlors, dining rooms, 
ordinaries and the marble halls There are some twenty-five guest chambers, each with a private bath. In the basement is 
a Turkish bath, with a marble plunge, 50x50 feet, and electric illumination from beneath as w-ell as above. 

The house is furnished with valuable paintings, tapestries, rugs and bric-a-brac, with many artistic pieces that once 
belonged to kings and nobles. Jlr. Vanderbilt's bedstead is an old heirloom, with carved posts and a throne-like canopy. 
His natural gifts and fondness led him to make renewed excursions to Europe in search of more treasures of art and antiquity. 
Biltmore estate comprises 120,000 acres, including the hunting reserve on Mt Pisgah and the Rat. The several departments 
of horticulture, forestry, agriculture, dairy, piggery, poultry, farm, etc.. are in the hands of experts. 

Under the direction of Frederick Law Olmstead, the veteran landscape architect, 10,000 acres have been converted 
into a magnificent park, bordered for five miles by the romantic French Broad and Swannanoa Rivers. liere abound ideal 
drives over mountain and plain, rivulets and lakes, picturesque retreats Every spot in sight of the visitor is cultivated with 
flowers, shrubs, vines, trees and plants, to grow in time into a unique model of a park. The public is admitted to the park 
on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons upon individual passes that can be procured at the estate's office at Biltmore Station. 




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